Episode 13 – Oh, Stepmother The late afternoon sun slanted through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the modern mansion, painting the polished concrete floors in stripes of gold and shadow. Oliver, at twenty-two, stood in the echoing foyer, his duffel bag at his feet feeling like an anchor. He was home from his final semester, degree in hand, a world of possibilities ahead. Yet, the air in his father’s house felt different, charged with a new and unsettling energy. “Oliver! You’re here!” His father, Richard, emerged from the west wing, a broad smile on his face. He clapped Oliver on the shoulder, the gesture familiar yet somehow distant. “The traffic must have been hell. Come in, come in. There’s someone I’m dying for you to meet properly.” Oliver had known, of course. The emails, the brief, awkward video calls. His father, a wealthy and perpetually busy cardiologist, had remarried six months prior. A whirlwind romance, he’d said. Her name was Myla. And then she appeared. She se
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